Jeremy Rutz
11th December 2002, 02:12 PM
Wow, I ask for feedback and get brutally honest criticism...but that's
okay, it's a valid point.
The reason there are so many advertisements on the page isn't because
I'm trying to make a buck. It's because I wanted the site to look
professional to anime companies. If they see their product can be
sufficiently promoted on my site, they may be more inclined to provide
my site with banner ads for upcoming releases and stuff. That'a also
why I made a direct link to an e-tailer for each review posted,
because when companies see that they know there's a sell-through
opportunity. Believe me, if I ever make a dime from that site it will
just go back into it, either for review material or contests and
stuff.
Admittedly I signed up for all the affilate programs in advance of
content because I had just launched it and was parading my site at
AXNY this year to the various companies on hand. The site looked
pretty bare at the time, because a) I'm not creatively inclined to
make graphics for the site; and b) I wanted to see what my monthly
bandwidth levels would look like before I started sending graphics
down the pipeline - I've got a large limit through my hosting company,
but since this is my first stab at running a web site I needed to test
the waters. So putting the ads on the page was a way to color it up
and and make it professional-looking at the same time.
So I hope in the future to have just the sponsors ads on the sidebar,
and to advertise specific anime titles on the banners. Personally I
don't care to make a profit from the site, I just wanted a place where
the anime community could congregate and post their reviews for others
to see, and hopefully generate enough interest in some of those
unlicensed properties to get the US licensors to take notice.
BTW, nice service on the CCS site. I added it in the SpotAnime links
section (see Fansites). Never really got into CCS because my only
exposure to it has been the US broadcast, but it's one I've been
meaning to check out for a while. It might be too much to ask if you'd
like to contribute a CCS review for my site, but I won't stop you...
;)
Thanks again. Keep in touch,
Jeremy
magus600@shaw.ca (Nogana Naishi) wrote in message news:<e3bf6686.0212101808.79bec83d@posting.google.com>...
>
> Here's an idea: Why don't you try finish writing your content first,
> and worry about ads and sponsors later? Considering you have roughly
> no visitors at the moment, it's not like they're doing you any good,
> anyway. Write some reviews because you love the subject, not because
> you want to make a quick buck. Putting 15 (!) advertisements on one
> page is only going to scare people away from your website. I know *I*
> don't plan to visit it again any time soon, anyway.
>
> -Nogana Naishi
> http://www.cardcaptors-uncensored.com/
okay, it's a valid point.
The reason there are so many advertisements on the page isn't because
I'm trying to make a buck. It's because I wanted the site to look
professional to anime companies. If they see their product can be
sufficiently promoted on my site, they may be more inclined to provide
my site with banner ads for upcoming releases and stuff. That'a also
why I made a direct link to an e-tailer for each review posted,
because when companies see that they know there's a sell-through
opportunity. Believe me, if I ever make a dime from that site it will
just go back into it, either for review material or contests and
stuff.
Admittedly I signed up for all the affilate programs in advance of
content because I had just launched it and was parading my site at
AXNY this year to the various companies on hand. The site looked
pretty bare at the time, because a) I'm not creatively inclined to
make graphics for the site; and b) I wanted to see what my monthly
bandwidth levels would look like before I started sending graphics
down the pipeline - I've got a large limit through my hosting company,
but since this is my first stab at running a web site I needed to test
the waters. So putting the ads on the page was a way to color it up
and and make it professional-looking at the same time.
So I hope in the future to have just the sponsors ads on the sidebar,
and to advertise specific anime titles on the banners. Personally I
don't care to make a profit from the site, I just wanted a place where
the anime community could congregate and post their reviews for others
to see, and hopefully generate enough interest in some of those
unlicensed properties to get the US licensors to take notice.
BTW, nice service on the CCS site. I added it in the SpotAnime links
section (see Fansites). Never really got into CCS because my only
exposure to it has been the US broadcast, but it's one I've been
meaning to check out for a while. It might be too much to ask if you'd
like to contribute a CCS review for my site, but I won't stop you...
;)
Thanks again. Keep in touch,
Jeremy
magus600@shaw.ca (Nogana Naishi) wrote in message news:<e3bf6686.0212101808.79bec83d@posting.google.com>...
>
> Here's an idea: Why don't you try finish writing your content first,
> and worry about ads and sponsors later? Considering you have roughly
> no visitors at the moment, it's not like they're doing you any good,
> anyway. Write some reviews because you love the subject, not because
> you want to make a quick buck. Putting 15 (!) advertisements on one
> page is only going to scare people away from your website. I know *I*
> don't plan to visit it again any time soon, anyway.
>
> -Nogana Naishi
> http://www.cardcaptors-uncensored.com/